Installation hanging (Dec CTP 5270)

Installation hanging (Dec CTP 5270)

• pjutard

  Many thanks to TPM01 for the suggestion that disabling the wireless hardware on a Dell laptop would allow one to get past the problem of the installation of build 5270 hanging. I tried that on my Dell laptop and was able to successfully install Vista. Then I shut down, went back into the BIOS, re-enabled the wireless hardware, and rebooted. The boot process hung at the "Longhorn" screen (the black screen with the progress bar below the word "Longhorn"). I turned the wireless hardware back off and it booted fine.

  Aero Glass now works on my laptop (NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 display controller). It didn't work with the October CTP. But when I first log in, the mouse pointer for my Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse doesn't appear.

  BTW, the product key on the MSDN site worked fine for me.

  
  

• YelenaS

  The installation of build 5270 is hanging on my Dell Precision M70 laptop (1.86 GHz Pentium-M, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB HD, nVidia Quadro FX Go1400 display adapter). The laptop is set up for dual boot, with XP SP2 on one partition and Vista on the other. Earlier I installed the October CTP of Vista on this laptop with no problem, but I've made two attempts to install 5270, and it hung both times. The first time I did a full format of the Vista partition from XP before installation. The second time I did a quick format from XP. Both times I've tried to install by booting from the Vista DVD. I checked the SHA-1 hash on the downloaded ISO file, and it's correct.

  Is there a log file that I could look at to try to determine what the problem is

  
  

• Professor

  Was just able to install it (Vista CPT Dec 2005) on VMWare Workstation 5.5 (the evaluation version), running on my tablet PC.

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  Virtual Machine Settings: 512 MB RAM, Real CPU: Intel 2 GHZ; the rest is the emulated hardware by vmware.

   

  It took one hour and a half to install.

  
  

• destroy1369

  I' having the same symptoms installing 32bit Vista 5270 on a Compaq R4000 notebook.  Install never completes on dual-boot Win XP config.  I was able to install the 64bit version with NO snags.  I always use a clean partition.  Install was made from clean boot DVD.

  I'll be trying to install from Win XP next

   

   

   

  
  

• jhl_iv

  Ah...so, I'm not alone.  I have a Dell Inspiron 5150, 7200 rpm 60 gb hard disk, 2 gb ram, 3.04 GHz HT.  I created a new partition, said to format, etc., then it continued to install, and install, and install - eventually giving me the "This is taking longer than expected, but should complete soon".

  If anyone finds a solution to installing the Dec CTP, that would be great.  I was hoping to turn one box into a Vista dev box using the RTM of VS2005, WinFX, etc. - but it's not even a bootable machine anymore.  I'm going to try load XP Pro back on to get the hard disk formatted as NTFS, then retry the install.

  
  

• MLamers

  

  I've got the December CTP installed now! I'd noticed that the hang occured just after the screen flickered; my assumption is that this is in the device discovery phase. So, I disabled all the devices I could in the BIOS, re-ran the installer and all worked well. I've reenabled the devices now I'm running, and mostly it's good. However I find that when I try and install my Dell TrueMobile 1300 mini-PCI WLAN card the machine freezes. Apart from that my machine is running well.

  
  

• Jonathan Roy

  I don't even get the "taking longer than expected" message - the second progress bar gets about 75% of the way across the screen, then the whole machine locks up. Trying to install on a Dell D800 with 1.5Gb of RAM; Pentum-M 1.6GHz; 60Gb.
  

• Vinaygkumar

  it seems to me that Vista's installer is VERY buggy.
  My Pentium D 840 with 4GB and two WD Raptor 10k's has been "Installing Windows" for about 3 hours now.  Before this, I had AHCI enabled and it would reboot as soon as the black and white "Codename Longhorn" screen popped up while booting.

  Oh Wait!  3 hours, 13 minutes - I just got "Reboot in .... seconds"
  Now I to am on the "Completing Installation...", but at least I am having disk activity now.

  I think they are really going to have to rethink there whole "PE" installer - My OEM Pre-Install DVD's of XP take less than 30 minutes, and that includes Office.

  
  
  

• Sergio Sevilla

  Well, I couldn’t install this release or the releases before it on Microsoft Virtual PC SP1, but was able to install the older CPT’s on VMWare with no problems.

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  So ironical, the developers who are writing that OS, know that most of us will try it on a Virtual Machine, and they know that Microsoft Virtual PC is the one used by the MSDN subscriber, and for the third or forth time, they are releasing a build that is not working on their virtual machine.

   

  And the Microsoft Virtual PC has just one set of settings, no matter on what computer it is, in other words, it is the easiest to test for Microsoft.

   

  No matter how buggy is the installer, if it installs once on a VPC, it will always install on any VPC, well depends how buggy is the VPC :-)

   

   

  I don’t want to offend anyone, but releasing a BETA OS that does not support the MS VPC environment, is such an idiotic thing to do, but again, it is not the first time.

  
  
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